what we are learning tonight. a family s nightmare. a 6-year-old traveling alone to be with his grandmother for the holiday put on the wrong spirit airlines plane arriving in the wrong city. the tense moments for his family and what the airline is now saying this in the middle of a record breaking holiday travel season with millions hitting the roads and taking to the skies. we re following a cross-country storm making its way in the south. millions on alert for potential flooding and the blizzard warning in the northern plains. christmas celebrations canceled in the traditional birthplace of jesus where the fighting in gaza hangs over a time that is usually a time of joy. as relentless combat in the israel-hamas war takes a toll on civilians and both sides of the fighting and the grim death toll. prime minister benjamin netanyahu under pressure inside israel, rick clement from bethlehem. fear that the israeli-hamas conflict will spread as tensions escalate in the red s
married up, dude. i sure did. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. in the year 2000 george bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016 donald trump became the second. now, what made both of those victories even possible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000 it wasn t just the electoral college. it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remains staggering to this day. and even though al gore had won the popular vote by more than half a million votes, whether those 537 votes in florida did or did not get counted would decide the race. and after a flurry of legal challenges and appeals, that decision ended up in the hands of the supreme court. the supreme court hasn t been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that.
also tonight, new video showing a carnival cruise ship battling violent seas off south carolina. waves crashing in to the ship, winds gusting up to 80 miles per hour. hallways flooded. the ship returning to report nine hours late. the debt ceiling deal heading to congress. will it pass the house and senate before the new june 5 deadline? speaker mccarthy facing push back from some conservative republicans. president biden working the phones with democrats. our team pressing him, will this get done by june 5? the house vote set for wednesday. the abc news exclusive, a 11-year-old boy shot and wounded by a police officer responding to a 911 call from his home in mississippi. the boy describing what happens and what it felt like getting shot in the chest. authorities looking for a missing couple disappearing during across-country drive from tennessee to california. the couple last heard from in arizona following a reported altercation with her boyfriend in new mexico. the holida
was it retaliation? moscow say it was hit by a drone attack hours after kyiv was rocked by another wave of russian strikes. ukraine s message to russia now don t blame us. and another debt deal is about to hit another major hurdle that could sink the bill. we go to capitol hill to see where it stands. and gunfire erupts near a popular florida beach. at least nine people injured including a 1-year-old child. this is cnn news central. this morning, newly released video shows the mass shooting on a packed boardwalk on a beach near florida. it led to nine people being shot on a beach north of miami, and a different video shows a different area of the beach showing people running after the shots went off. carl suarez is going to join us from hollywood. give us the latest. john, good morning. so we are expecting another update from the hollywood police around 11:30 this morning to provide us with more information about exactly what happened out here. we know that the aut
and arizona, and one month after pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we are getting word donald trump and his allies are making plans to offend that announcement. maggie haberman will join us in a moment. just a reminder of how wide open and unpredictable these races are, take a look at the republican primary polls from this month back in 2015. marco rubio and jeb bush both led the pack. donald trump, he stood at 3%, tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s